Product Description
Grape: Chardonnay.
Region: France> Burgundy> Cote de Beaune> Puligny Montrachet.
Stony, lean, austere and persisting minerality - characteristics of Puligny-Montrachet - with hints of ripe fruit and lots of finesse. Though a small portion is exposed, new oak is very well integrated. It never taste "butter scotch" to cover the flavors. Their focus is always on expressing the true characteristics of the grape and terroir.
"Les Enseignieres" is a parcel situated just below Grands Crus Batard Montrachet. It offers great quality of the Grand Crus next door at an extremely good value.
Gerard Prudhon is the current scion of the Prudhon family. The Prudhons are perhaps the family with the oldest and deepest roots in the tiny village of Saint Aubin. In fact, both Gerard and his father, Henri, have served as mayors of this wine-immersed community lying immediately to the west of Puligny and Chassagne.
Despite their long history as "vignerons" in Saint Aubin, it was only in 1980 that the Prudhons began to bottle their own wine. Now almost the entirety of the harvest is bottled under their own label. The Prudhons have 13 hectares in vines (60% in Pinot Noir and 40% in Chardonnay).
Harvest is done manually. The whites are fermented and aged in barrel and generally are exposed to about 15% new oak. The majority of the whites are bottled just prior to the succeeding year's harvest. Gerard Prudhon, with his son, Vincent, produces honest wines of extremely good value.
